Victoire Ingabire, center, with her lawyers Gatera Gashabana, left, and Iain Edwards, right, at her trial in Kigali in 2012. Gatera Gashabana is representing Ingabire in her appeal to the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights, but prison authorities are not allowing him to speak with her.

This Friday, 24/07/2015, for the second consecutive time, the Kigali central prison authorities refused to allow Rwandan political prisoner Victoire...

Thank you. Thank you so much. Madam Chairwoman, thank you so much for your kind words and your leadership. To Prime Minister Hailemariam, and the people of Ethiopia -- once again, thank you for your wonderful hospitality and for hosting this pan-African institution.

The Cuban Music Train is here and its making its way to Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, located at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West in the Bronx, via the popular Cuban Group Formell Y Los Van Van. Regarded as one of the most influential bands of the 20th Century, Los Van Van will bring its hybrid rhythms, Afro-cuban disco and funk blended with the go-go sounds of the 1970s back to Lehman Center for the Performing Arts as part of its exclusive NYC appearance. The band is celebrating...

Today’s topic isn’t about guns, the right to bear arms, or the US Constitution. The following take has nothing to do with upward mobility, our various political parties, or how well “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation” will do at the box office this weekend. This op-ed is about the unmitigated arrogance of one individual. His name is Dr. Walter Palmer – and he’s currently at an undisclosed location. I find this development unacceptable. For his egregious acts, as well as the...

Democracy cannot breathe, and will die, if those enjoined to protect and uphold the law snuff it out unjustly and without consequence. Justice cannot breathe when Black men and boys and women and girls are routinely profiled, abused, arrested, and killed with impunity by police officers. We must stop this. We must protect the lives of our young people—all of them. God did not make two classes of people or children and America continues to do so at...

August 17 will mark the 128th birthday of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the visionary Jamaican-born leader who built the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) into the largest mass movement for liberation in the history of Africans in America and perhaps the world.

As such, I have long advocated that August 17th, his birthday, be celebrated as Universal African Flag Day.

“It's All Relative," a production written and directed by Kimberly Q. Orchids played at the Hudson Guild on July 30, as part of its contribution to the Thespis Theater NYC Festival being held at 441 West 26th Street in Manhattan.

The play takes place in a Senior Citizen complex in Newark, NJ, entitled “Relives.” It is there that our characters congregate in a human tangle of love, hate, depression, gaiety, judgment, sorrow and need.

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